Includes bibliographical references and index

Volume One : From earliest times to 1600 -- Part I : Early Japan. -- 1. The Earliest Records of Japan -- 2. Early Shinto -- 3. Prince Shotoku and His Constitution -- 4. Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan 5. Nara Buddhism -- Part II : Mahayana Universalism and the Sense of Hierarchy. -- 6. Saicho and Mt. Hiei (Ryusaku Tsunoda and Paul Groner) -- 7. Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism 8. The Spread of Esoteric Buddhism -- 9. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics I -- Part III : The Medieval Age : Despair, Deliverance, and Destiny -- 10. Amida, the Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New -- 11. New Voices of History / Paul Varley -- 12. The Way of the Warrior / Paul Varley -- 13. Nichiren : The Sun and the Lotus / Philip Yampolsky -- 14. Zen Buddhism / William Bodiford -- 15. Shinto in Medieval Japan -- 16. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics II -- 17. Women's Education -- 18. Law and Precepts for the Warrior Houses / Paul Varley -- 19. The Regime of the Unifiers / Jurgis S. A. Elisonas --

Volume Two : 1600-2000. -- Part IV : The Tokugawa Peace. -- 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate / Willem Boot -- 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period / Willem Boot -- 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan -- 23. The Evangelic Furnace : Japanís First Encounter with the West / J. S. A. Elisonas -- 24. Confucian Revisionists / Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker -- 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education -- 26. Popular Instruction -- 27. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics III / Donald Keene -- 28. Haiku and the Democracy of Poetry as a Popular Art / Donald Keene -- 29. "Dutch Learning" / Grant Goodman -- 30. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism -- 31. The Way of the Warrior II -- 32. The National Learning Schools / Peter Nosco -- 33. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period -- 34. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform -- 35. Forerunners of the Restoration -- 36. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration -- Part V : Japan, Asia, and the West. -- 37. The Meiji Restoration / Fred G. Notehelfer -- 38. Civilization and Enlightenment / Albert Craig -- 39. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism / James Huffman -- 40. Education in Meiji Japan / Richard Rubinger -- 41. Nationalism and Pan-Asianism -- 42. The High Tide of Prewar Liberalism / Arthur E. Tiedemann -- 43. Socialism and the Left / Andrew Barshay -- 44. The Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism / Marius Jansen -- 45. Empire and War / Peter Duus -- Part VI : Postwar Japan. -- 46. The Occupation Years, 1945-1952 / Marlene Mayo -- 47. Democracy and High Growth / Andrew Gordon -- Part VII : Aspects of the Modern Experience -- 48. The New Religions / Helen Hardacre -- 49. Japan and the World in Cultural Debate -- 50. Gender Politics and Feminism / Brett Chiyo and Japanese Feminism -- 51. Thinking with the Past : History Writing in Modern Japan / Carol Gluck

v.1. "Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of the texts in the original 1958 edition, and added a great many selections not included or translated before. They have also restructured volume 1 to span the period from the early Japanese chronicles to the end of the sixteenth century. New additions include: readings on early and medieval Shinto and on the tea ceremony, readings on state Buddhism and Chinese political thought influential in Japan, and sections on women's education, medieval innovations in the uses of history, and laws and precepts of the medieval warrior houses. Together, the selections shed light on the development of Japanese civilization in its own terms, without reference to Western parallels, and will continue to assist generations of students and lay readers in understanding Japanese culture."

v.2. "Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern Japan's most important philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. The volume also offers extensive introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding the documents' historical setting and significance. Wonderfully varied in its selections, this eagerly anticipated expanded edition has revised many of the texts from the original edition and added a great many not included or translated before. New additions include documents on the postwar era, the importance of education in the process of modernization, and women's issues. Beginning with documents from the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, the collection's essays, manifestos, religious tracts, political documents, and memoirs reflect major Japanese religious, philosophical, social, and political movements. Subjects covered include the spread of neo-Confucian and Buddhist teachings, Japanese poetry and aesthetics, and the Meiji Restoration. Other documents reflect the major political trends and events of the period: the abolition of feudalism, agrarian reform, the emergence of political parties and liberalism, and the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars. The collection also includes Western and Japanese impressions of each other via Western religious missions and commercial and cultural exchanges. These selections underscore Japanese and Western apprehension of and fascination with each other. As Japan entered the twentieth century, new political and social movements-Marxism, anarchism, socialism, feminism, and nationalism-entered the national consciousness. Later readings in the collection look at the buildup to war with the United States, military defeat, and American occupation. Documents from the postwar period echo Japan's struggle with its own history and its development as a capitalist democracy." --Publisher description

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